Re: memtest86
On 9/14/23 22:17, Stefan Monnier wrote:
latest version is 10.6, get it at:
<https://www.memtest86.com/download.html>
This, Stefan, looks exactly like the memtest86 we've all been using for
nearly 30 years. Possibly under new management, and you may not agree
with the pro version costing money, but TANSTAAFL is a universal law.
Somebody has to pay the bills. If you think the peanuts are free, check
the price of the beer.
Freeware! Eww!
I recommend https://www.memtest.org/ instead (admittedly, until a year
or two ago, this Free Software was severely outdated and didn't really
work with UEFI, but things have picked up again since).
I've pulled this on down too, but the previews don't quite look like the
old familiar one I found above. And with all the caveats discussed in
the faq list, I'll be a bit spooky. Like running it w/o a net cable so
it can't call home.
But I'll burn the 64 bit grub iso to a dvd and try it. I have had
several "use the back panel power switch" to recover from lockups since
being forced to upgrade to bookworm by something wiping my passwd during
a bullseye update. bookworm does NOT like my raid10 /home, taking from
30 secs to 5 minutes to open the file requestor just to save this
download. Perhaps this one can tell me something the v9.4 I got from my
link didn't. Lockups that are strange, the mouse pointer still moves
normally, but clicks are ignored and so is the keyboard. The cute
analog clock is frozen, as is the rest of the gkrellm display.
Stefan
Take care and stay well..
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